About WNCweather.us Weather Station
WNCweather was started in February of 2007,
primarly due to the lack of local weather information, our rural area
has no media serving this area.
WNCweather is powered by a Davis Instruments Wireless Vantage Pro2, with 24-Hour Fan Aspirated Radiation Shield weather station. The data is collected every 2 seconds and the site is updated every 15 minutes.
The station is comprised of an anemometer, a rain gauge, UV, Sun strength and a thermo-hydro sensor situated in optimal positions for highest accuracy possible.

About Western North Carolina
Western North Carolina (abbreviated as WNC) is the region of North Carolina, which includes the Appalachian Mountains, often known geographically as the state's Mountain Region. WNC contains the highest mountains in the Eastern United States.
Our location two main ranges; the Great Smoky Mountains, Blue Ridge Mountains, along with several National and state parks.
WNCweather is located on the southern side of the Great Smoky Mountains National park, approximately 20 miles south of the Tennessee state line. This is home to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, who have a reservation situated here in Swain County.
In addition to the natural beauty of our area, there are many outdoor ventures such as canoeing, whitewater rafting, camping, hiking and fishing.

First and only weather station in its class to use frequency hopping spread spectrum radio technology to transmit weather data wirelessly up to 1000' (300 m). Includes Vantage Pro2 console/receiver, integrated sensor suite (ISS), and mounting hardware. ISS includes rain collector, temperature and humidity sensors, anemometer, 40' (12 m) anemometer cable, solar radiation sensor, UV sensor, sensor mounting shelf, and solar panel.
Temperature and humidity sensors are enclosed in our patented, solar-powered, 24-hour fan-aspirated radiation shield. Shield combines fan aspiration and passive shielding to minimize the effects of solar radiation.
ISS is solar powered. Electronic components are housed in a weather-resistant shelter. Console may be powered using the included AC-power adapter or with three C batteries.
Wireless range is up to 1000' (300 m) outdoors, line of sight. Typical range through walls under most conditions is 200' to 400' (60 to 120 m). Add wireless repeaters for distances up to 1.7 miles (2.7 km).

Soil Mositure Sensor

Measures moisture of soil

Leaf Wetness Sensor

Monitors surface level foilage

Soil Temperature Probe

Measures soil temperature

Wireless Relay

Used to relay
data from leaf and soil to main station

Wireless Repeater Station

Used to extend & improve reception

Weather Display is the software to get the most from your weather station. Not only does it support a huge range of stations from all the major manufacturers but it's also stacked with features and options. These include real time, auto scale and graph history graphing, FTP of the weather data to your web page, pager and email notifications of extreme conditions, web download, Metar/ Synop emails, averages/extreme/climate/NOAA reports, web cam upload, grouped file uploads, FTP downloads, decoded metar download's, APRS output (internet and direct com port as well) ,WAP, direct web cam capture, animated web cam images, weatherdials, weather voice, weather answer phone, use of Dallas 1 wire sensors (such as lightning counter, solar sensor, barometer sensor and extra temperature/humidity sensors with any weather station), use a Labjack to add extra temperature or humidity sensor to your existing weather station (USB)... and lots more!
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Radar

GRLevel3 is a Windows viewer for live NEXRAD Level III data from the NWS Radar Product Central Collection Dissemination Service. See severe thunderstorm and tornado warnings along with details of Nexrad-identified threats

GR2Analyst is an advanced Nexrad Level II analysis application. It features a high quality volumetric display and several high resolution reflectivity-derived graphical products in addition to the standard Level II data products.

The Boltek LD-350 Lightning Detects
lightning within milliseconds of a lightning strike, the detector beeps and your computer displays the strike location. The LD-350's direction-finding antenna measures lightning strike direction while the LD-350's receiver estimates distance from received signal strength.

NexStormâ„¢ seamlessly combines advanced analysis and display features with Internet integration and interprocess communication functionality in ways that makes this application not only unique, but also the most versatile and flexible software package for lightning detection that you will find.